A fire broke out on Thursday at the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine maker, according to local television footage.
Indian television channels showed a huge cloud of gray smoke above the site of the Serum Institute of India, in Pune (west) where millions of doses of the vaccine against the Covishield coronavirus, developed by AstraZeneca and the University are currently produced. from Oxford.
The media clarified that the production of vaccines against Covid-19 was not affected.
Maharashtra: 10 fire tenders present at Serum Institute of India in Pune, where a fire broke out at Terminal 1 gate.
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